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Help Needed : Sram Shifter

  • 30-05-2011 1:08pm
    #1
    Needabike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭


    Hi Folks

    wondering if anyone can help me
    On a Sram system ( Rival ) I usually knew when I was in the largest sprocket
    by shifting but only getting a "dumb Click"
    IE : Shifter moves but nothing happens

    Yesterday when I made the same move the deraileur moved me down 2-3 sprockets.

    Am I screwed with a dodgy shifter or where else can I look

    cheers for your help


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  • #2
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,232 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    In my experience it's normal with doubletap to shift back up when you're at the end of the cassette.

    Some people find this annoying.


  • #3
    Needabike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭Needabike


    Cheers Lumen

    I always get confused with the High/Low - Up/Down language.

    This is basically when I am in the 28 it flicks me back to the 23 sprocket


    Is that what you have seen

    thanks again


  • #4
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,232 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    In theory you're only supposed to upshift if you fail to move the lever past the short upshift position.

    I find the "dumb click" has a sort of hateful thud about it (like you get when crunching gears in a car) and what little mechanical sympathy I have forces me to pay attention to gears and avoid using it.

    I haven't managed to wear out my shifters yet but I'm using SRAM Red rather than Rival and they may be built slightly differently.

    I don't know whether limit screws have any bearing on the symptoms. Maybe wind out the L screw a bit see if it makes a difference.


  • #5
    Whitehawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Whitehawk


    Needabike wrote: »
    Hi Folks

    wondering if anyone can help me
    On a Sram system ( Rival ) I usually knew when I was in the largest sprocket
    by shifting but only getting a "dumb Click"
    IE : Shifter moves but nothing happens

    Yesterday when I made the same move the deraileur moved me down 2-3 sprockets.

    Am I screwed with a dodgy shifter or where else can I look

    cheers for your help
    how new is the bike! if its not to old -this can happen and just needs some adjusting...


  • #6
    Needabike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭Needabike


    Groupset is installed over 6 months and had been working fine

    Will check out Lumens thoughts when I get home

    Ta


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  • #7
    Holyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Holyboy


    Hmm,i was arguing on here a while ago about how great sram shifters were, but I might have changed my mind,ive had two rival right hand shifters in the shop lately with broken parts inside and resulting in similar problems,i mistakenly thought parts were availible but after talking to the uk service centre have been corrected, but on the up side if it is broken they come with a two year warranty.


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